Merkel is made a “scapegoat” for the war in Ukraine: the ex-chancellor defends her position

The ex-chancellor of Germany is sure that she was right when she prevented Ukraine from joining NATO.

Former Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel said that they are trying to blame her for the start of the war in Ukraine. Merkel's critics say Putin dared to attack Ukraine because she prevented Kiev from getting a NATO Membership Action Plan at the 2008 NATO summit in Bucharest.

Angela Merkel said this in an interview with Spiegel.

Speaking on the occasion of the release of the politician's memoirs, journalists asked her if she felt that she was being made a scapegoat for the Russian-Ukrainian war because of her behavior at the NATO summit in 2008. In response, Merkel said that it was “not just a feeling, it's the truth.”

“Volodymyr Zelensky, for example, called former French President Sarkozy and me to come to Buchi after the terrible…